GRE Word List
PENDULOUS
poised without visible support
The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| pitfall | trap |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
